Ok, so from my past experience I know that the print engine for Epson R260 to the Artisan 50 and Epson Stylus Photo 1400 are the same......all the way to the Artisan 1430.
So I made profiles using the Artisan 50, until I brought home an Epson Stylus Photo 1400 from one of my relatives, it needed some attention.
So I started printing something using my profiles and coincidentally opened a new box of Kirkland.......Colors are way off!!!! What the hell. Paper Batch?????? or what? Tried some red river and same thing.
Brought my resting Artisan 50 and the colors are way off too! The differences were totally different.
I could get a decent image using the Artisan 50 using automatic setting BUT as soon as I tried turning off the color adjustment....things went weird for the Artisan 50. I could not get a decent print off the Artisan. Self doubt set in now. Did I put in the wrong ink in the 50? Did I put in M where I should have put in LM??????
So none of the two printers were printing correctly. What was going on? Were the profiles made with incorrect inks? What's happening.
So to determine what is going on, I used Qimage and printed side by side images using different Epson ICCs and sure enough the output is identical between the iccs of the Art50, SP1400 and Art1430.
Three hours passed of futzing around and telling myself, I had to redo the profiles. Rats.....more days of work. BUT which printer to use? They both are producing different images where they should be the same. What the hell???? How do you know which is the correct one????
Ran into my archives and pulled out past test prints. They did not look the same. That confirmed the ink is incorrect? or does it?
So what's happening? I started to switch carts between the two printers. Still both came out different.
It simply made no sense.
So I stepped back and wondered what the difference was? It did not dawn on me what the possibility was. So I removed the artisan 50 driver and reinstalled it. No difference.....until I downloaded a NEW driver and bang the Artisan 50 came back to where it should have been. Was the privious driver WRONG? it certainly looked like double profiling was going on.Even when I turned off color adjustment.
The Epson profiles and mine were now much closer....the way it should have been.
In retrospect....the Artisan driver used to create the profiles were done two drivers before. I installed an SSD and resinstalled a new driver.... DId the newest driver fix something? I don't know.
From this I then surmised that the SP1400 was now the one incorrect. Is it the printer itself or is it the driver?........Time will tell when more work is done BUT when someone has "bad" color. it is not always easy to figure out what is happening. I mean I have color managed thousands of times. I could not have been making the same mistake for over 4 hours. So something was amiss. Exactly what??? I am not sure and it still remains a bit of a mystery. What should have been a straightforward thing consumed hours of time. I could easily imagine someone not as experienced, throwing the printer out the window.
So I made profiles using the Artisan 50, until I brought home an Epson Stylus Photo 1400 from one of my relatives, it needed some attention.
So I started printing something using my profiles and coincidentally opened a new box of Kirkland.......Colors are way off!!!! What the hell. Paper Batch?????? or what? Tried some red river and same thing.
Brought my resting Artisan 50 and the colors are way off too! The differences were totally different.
I could get a decent image using the Artisan 50 using automatic setting BUT as soon as I tried turning off the color adjustment....things went weird for the Artisan 50. I could not get a decent print off the Artisan. Self doubt set in now. Did I put in the wrong ink in the 50? Did I put in M where I should have put in LM??????
So none of the two printers were printing correctly. What was going on? Were the profiles made with incorrect inks? What's happening.
So to determine what is going on, I used Qimage and printed side by side images using different Epson ICCs and sure enough the output is identical between the iccs of the Art50, SP1400 and Art1430.
Three hours passed of futzing around and telling myself, I had to redo the profiles. Rats.....more days of work. BUT which printer to use? They both are producing different images where they should be the same. What the hell???? How do you know which is the correct one????
Ran into my archives and pulled out past test prints. They did not look the same. That confirmed the ink is incorrect? or does it?
So what's happening? I started to switch carts between the two printers. Still both came out different.
It simply made no sense.
So I stepped back and wondered what the difference was? It did not dawn on me what the possibility was. So I removed the artisan 50 driver and reinstalled it. No difference.....until I downloaded a NEW driver and bang the Artisan 50 came back to where it should have been. Was the privious driver WRONG? it certainly looked like double profiling was going on.Even when I turned off color adjustment.
The Epson profiles and mine were now much closer....the way it should have been.
In retrospect....the Artisan driver used to create the profiles were done two drivers before. I installed an SSD and resinstalled a new driver.... DId the newest driver fix something? I don't know.
From this I then surmised that the SP1400 was now the one incorrect. Is it the printer itself or is it the driver?........Time will tell when more work is done BUT when someone has "bad" color. it is not always easy to figure out what is happening. I mean I have color managed thousands of times. I could not have been making the same mistake for over 4 hours. So something was amiss. Exactly what??? I am not sure and it still remains a bit of a mystery. What should have been a straightforward thing consumed hours of time. I could easily imagine someone not as experienced, throwing the printer out the window.
